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Illusion, the art of tricking the brain, distorting the senses, challenging

perception. You can't trust what you see, even with your own eyes. Meet the

Masters of Illusion.

All right. Hello, everybody.

I'm Dean Cain, and welcome to Masters of Illusion. Now, in dreams, anything can

happen. But in real life... the possibilities are limited, right?

Well, don't be so sure.

See if you can tell whether what you're seeing is real or something that can

only happen in dreams.

I promise you, you will not fall asleep. Are you ready to do this?

All right.

The mind can be influenced by the source of light. So this tray right here can

hold 25 balls.

Well, how many is it actually carrying?

Let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, right?

Well, if you flip it over, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Hmm, same tray, same balls, only the perception of the brain has changed.

But watch our Masters of Illusion closely tonight because they are masters

changing what you see.

I promise.

This act should begin with a warning.

He throws cards with speed and accuracy, and he always hits his target.

At least I hope he does. Here is Rick Smith Jr.

All right, you guys ready for some card -throwing trick shots?

All right, we're going to do something a little bit dangerous. I am a three

-time Guinness Book World record holder. I'm going to throw a playing card so

fast and stick it in the target, but I need someone that's willing to come up

here and help me out.

Nobody. How about you? You look like you'd be a good person for this. Let's

him a round of applause, everybody. Come on down.

How are you?

Tell me your name. Gene. Gene.

You ready for this?

Yes. Excellent. I'm going to have you stand against this wall.

I'm going to have you put on this welder's mask.

I'm going to throw playing cards around you.

It's going to be great. So come on over here. I want you to stand.

Put both your feet on the bottom.

Spread your arms.

And we're going to do this.

We're going to start easy.

We're going to go to the green one.

All right, move your head a little bit this way.

And we'll move to the orange.

I'm glad you moved.

We'll go for the purple.

Blue. Let's see where else we go. Want to go up high, up to the head?

There it is.

Oh, there's one more down there.

Do you guys want to see that one?

I hardly ever miss.

You sure you're ready for this?

Here we go.

for content to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

But try getting a duck to race like he's in the Indianapolis 500.

Well, that is something else. Here is Ed Alonzo.

Now we focus on our audience camera.

Try to follow the manipulations of Joel Myers.

What's up, my friends? I am here with Deja, yeah, and Jay.

Yes, Deja and Jay. Guys, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to show you

guys what it's like to be a magician, okay? So we're going to do something

deck cards here. I'm going to mix these up, give them a little shuffle, mixy

mixy, shuffle, shuffle.

Every day I'm shuffling. Yeah. All right, here's what we're going to do. I

want you to face stop as I ripple down the side. Face stop anywhere you want.

Cool. I can see that one. Take the one. I cannot see, Deja. But you show it to

the camera. Make sure the people at home see the card, Deja.

And you memorize it. Yeah, show it to everybody. Perfect. In fact, you can

show it to Jay. He's going to be the magician, but he's just learning. So,

Okay, you got it? Jay, you're going to take the deck. I want you to spread out

the cards.

And, Deja, you put the card back anywhere you want.

He's the magician.

Awesome job. Put the cards back together.

Now, Jay, I need you to snap your fingers over the deck. Go ahead. Snap.

Wow, dude. That was like Michael Jackson. I like it.

He's like...

Jay, check it out. Nothing weird. I haven't done anything funny, and yet the

card is the king of spades. Yes?

Yes.

Is that?

That's not right. What do you mean, no? That wasn't the card?

No, that's not right. I didn't say it was your card. I just said the king of

spades. It is the king of spades.

Jay was with me on that. I felt it was Jay.

Put your hand out like this, Jay. Watch the king of spades. I'm going to take

the king. I'm going to rip it in half, just like this. I'll rip it in half.

Rip it in half again, just like that.

Jay, I'm going to take the pieces of the king. I'm going to put it in your fist

like that. I want you to squeeze them nice and tight, Jay. Turn your fist

Check this out. You guys, tell me what was the card, Deja. You could tell me.

Four of hearts, so not even close to the king of spades. The four hearts. This

one here.

Check that out, Deja. Make sure that's just one card, nothing weird.

Yeah, it's just a card. Show it to the camera, just a card.

Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to do this really slow. I'm going to

take the four, and I'm going to wave the four over the pieces in your fist, just

like this. When I do that, the pieces of that king will come out of your fist

fully formed. Did you see that?

Check out the pieces in your fist now, Jay. Check it out, man. Check it out.

Show everybody. Look at this.

Check it out.

Put your fist up.

Yeah, grab your hand like that. Squeeze the pieces of the card one more time.

Here's what's going to happen. You feel the piece in your fist, right?

Here's what's going to happen. After a while, the pieces are going to start to

get really warm in your fist. They're going to start to move.

They're going to keep moving, Jay, until they're not ripped anymore in your

fist. Check it out.

Show everybody, Jay. Check it out.

Did you see that?

Jay, give me some. That's awesome.

Next, watch the astounding skill of Keelan Lacer.

Get ready for a modern techno approach to magic. From London, here are Keelan

Lacer and Matt Daniel Payson. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Ladies and gentlemen, advanced technology may seem like magic, but the

reality may surprise you.

So, we thought we'd take a traditional card trick and using technology, bring

bang up to date.

For this, we're going to need a couple of volunteers.

So I'm going to...

Oh, show of hands. Wonderful.

Excellent. We'll use you just here. Would you say stop for me somewhere?

Stop. Excellent. Take the card. Don't look at it just yet. And we'll come

this side. What's your name?

Chris. Chris.

Good name. Can I borrow you quickly? Would you say stop?

Stop. Stop. Good choice. What's your name?

Ellie. Ellie.

Chris and Ellie, have a quick pinch at your cards as I make my way back up to

the stage.

Hold the cards up so the camera can see as Keelan and myself will look at the

floor. Okay, Chris, I'm going to draw.

Something on this tablet.

And I'd like you to stare at it for me.

Good. Now I'm going to finish it off by drawing a playing card.

In a loud, clear voice, Chris, could you name your card?

The Queen of Hearts. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. The Queen of

That's okay. I know what you're thinking. I'm a magician, and finding

would be a bit easy for a magician.

It'd be better if, Chris, you found Ellie's selective card.

Okay, Chris, the way that this is going to work is that I'm going to draw a very

quick picture of you.

Okay? So sit nice and still. Sit up. That's right. You're on telly.

Good man. And Ellie, you don't get off the hook that easily. I'm going to do a

quick sketch of you as well.

Nice big smile, please.

I think I've got your hair just about right.

Wonderful. There you go.

Chris, you'll be pleased. Ellie, probably not so pleased.

But there's a picture of you. So, Chris, you're going to go on a little

adventure to try and find Ellie's card.

So we have Ellie.

We have Chris.

We have a pack of cards. All we need now is some dramatic music.

Five, four, three, two, one.

Mission accepted.

Granted.

Ellie, was that your card?

Shoot Ogawa. We'll make you doubt your senses

when we come back.

We went all the way to Japan to find our next illusionist and he will astound

you here is shoot Oh God Thank you very

much, and I chose you from audience watch your name John John John Jonah

Oh Jonah, okay. Nice to meet you. My name is Jude. Please have a seat and

the show together All right, we're gonna do magic together. So but I know first

I would like to the deck of cards here Okay, I use the playing card 52 card.

It's no Joker in it So, I would like to do a trick, but first, I want you to

choose one card, but keep it face down.

Somewhere around here, okay? First, I want you to take one card, and just put

on the table, please.

Okay?

That one? Okay. Throw it back here. Very good. All right. So, before I start to

show this card, I want to tell you, actually, this trick is named for

Sometimes, people see the value of the card, which is 8 is 1, 6, king is 13.

So, we have a lot of numbers, just in case I shuffle the card like this way.

So, now, I want you to remember this card.

Okay. And they show two people. There you go.

All right.

So now I put it back in the middle of the card.

So say stop.

Stop. Okay. Put it back here. You see it? Yes? Yes. Okay. Remember the value

suit.

Okay. Both important.

Okay. I put it back here, just like that way.

So now I would like to do this.

I want to use the number of your chosen card. If your card was 10, say 10. If

your card was like a four of hearts, just say four. Okay. What was the value

that card?

Seven? Okay, I have to mark just in case, right?

So seven cards.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

Seven cards.

This is important.

If it's a different number, it could be different happen. If it's a ten, I do

three more cards, right? So it could be changed.

Very fast time. What was the card?

Seven. Seven of clubs.

Yeah,

seven of clubs. It's nice, isn't it?

Okay, yeah, that's how I do it. Okay, yeah, it's fine, isn't it?

Seven of clubs.

So, but sometimes people say different number, sometimes people forget about

or sometimes people say, if I say different number, what happens?

Right? If you say top four, I do four card one, two, and three, and fourth

could be four, like this way.

Or if you say three, I take three card like this, third card should be three.

If I take like a five card, one, two, three, four, five, fifth card could be

five.

Okay, so we've got it. Okay, good. Good. Good. So so that everything happened

with the number. That's the interesting thing So you the two number like the

four book clubs, which is the four, right? I take another one with you

swap the position like this It's clear right and I spread it out like this way

so you can see everything together now when I squeeze like this You can see now

it becomes seven card one two, three, four five six seven and this card become

only four cards

I know, it's strange, isn't it? So, everything can be happen with numbers.

like a random card. Like, this is the whole point. But, like, you know, if you

take this card like this way, you can take, like, for example, if I take,

only five cards, it's going to be five, as I said.

Okay? For example, if it's nine cards, it's going to be, like, nine.

And if it's only one card, what's it going to be?

It's going to be an eight.

Yeah, it must be an eight, right?

I know.

I know. That's pretty good.

So, let me recap.

If I have only one card, it's going to be the 8, right?

Okay, if we have many cards, which means like the body should be large, which is

the king.

So if it's the king, which means the starting card. Let me count.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 cards. It's amazing,

isn't it?

It's crazy, yeah.

It's all right, like a random card.

So, but I know it looks like I care about only numbers, but also I care

the suit.

That's why you can see, this is a club.

And two. And three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten.

And gas.

Queen. And king.

Like that way.

Thank you very much. Hope you enjoyed it. Thank you so much.

Next. Is your mind able to keep up with the antics of Andy Blank?

Our next magician brings us magic all the way from England. Say hello to Andy

Gladwin.

Hello!

Is anybody else cold in here?

Just me.

You're probably wondering what I'm doing inside a balloon. Well, tonight I will

perform a world first in magic.

A trick using only my head.

But I will need a safe pair of hands. And we have somebody in the audience

we've given a very special deck of cards to. If that is you, please hold up the

card. There we go. Hello, sir. What is your name?

DJ? Thanks for helping.

Now, DJ, that deck of cards... has 52 different professions written on it. I'd

like you to hold the cards with the writing towards you and then read out

of the professions.

Artist, doctor, teacher, doctor.

Great. And they're all different, right? Now turn the cards face down so that

even you can't see them. And now I'd like you to cut some cards anywhere in

middle of the deck and then look to the card that you've cut to.

Fantastic. Look at the card. And I'd like you to remember the profession that

written on that card.

I will now amazingly attempt to predict the chosen profession.

DJ, just look me in the eyes and I will try and get what you are thinking of.

Okay.

DJ, my impression of a chicken suggests that you selected a chicken farmer.

Yes or no, is that correct?

No?

My mistake, it must just be a farmer.

No? Just a chicken?

No, that's not even a job. Okay, um, alright, I'm afraid you've got me. You

tell everyone for the first time, what is the job?

Scuba diver. Scuba diver?

Okay, I guess I could do one last impression.

This is my impression of a scuba diver.

Well, that's it. How do they do it? Well, you can't ask me because I'm as

baffled as you are.

Until next time, I'm Gene Kane.

Good night.